Indian sports news wrap, November 6

Here are all the major updates and results from Indian sports on November 6.

Kiran Nadar presents the Naresh Tandan trophy to the champion team from Poland, Azs Buboslavia, in the HCL Bridge championship in Delhi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement.

Here are all the major updates and results from Indian sports on November 6.

BRIDGE

A young team from Poland, Azs Buboslavia, beat Formidables 112.5 to 96 to clinch the Team of four Gold trophy in the 20th HCL International bridge championship at the Leela Ambience Convention Hotel here on Sunday.

The champion team of Kamil Nowak, Piotr Marcinowski, Jakub Patreuha and Patryk Patreuha won a cash prize of Rs.44,00,000, in lifting the Naresh Tandan trophy.

“We have finished runner-up for the second time”, said Kiran Nadar, leader of the Formidables team, and Chairperson of the organising committee. She was particularly pleased with the response from foreign participants and hoped that more foreigners would come in future events and help lift the quality of game further in the country, in the biggest prize money event in the world.

She also announced that HCL was open to hosting the World Championship which it had last conducted in Chennai in 2015. And that her dream was to introduce bridge in schools. The runner-up team collected Rs.24,00,000 in prize money.

The Team of four silver title was won by the Indian team of Standard Plus, and it pocketed Rs.16,00,000. The runner-up Shiv Shakti got Rs.9,60,000. There was prize money till the 16th spot in these two events, for a combined prize pool of 1.72 crore rupees.

There were also many pairs events offering a total prize purse of about a crore rupees.

The results (final):

Team of four gold (final): Azs Buboslavia, Poland (Kamil Nowak, Piotr Marcinowski, Jakub Patreuha, Patryk Patreuha) bt Formidables (Kiran Nadar, Bachiraju Satyanarayana, Rajeshwar Tewari, Sumit Mukherjee, Kaustabh Nandi, Sagnik Roy) 112.5 - 96.

Third place: Poland bt Hemant Jalan 144.5 - 93.

Team of four Silver (final): Standard Plus (Rajeev S, Sukumaran Rajeev, Sahirudeen, Asok Jose lean, Ranga Khadioya, Nizamudeean Shahul Hamid, Franz Mundaden) bt Shiv Shakti (Goutam Chatterjee, Sanjit Bhattacharjee, Sanjib Ganguly, Prabir Kumar Thakur, Manoj Kumar Dey Tapan Kumar Bhattacharya) 98 - 74.

Third place: ICSA Coolers bt Mind Crusaders 93-69.

Open MP pairs gold: 1. Boye Brogeland & Christian Bakke 437.3; 2. Julian Stefanov & Vladimir Mihov 428.9; 3. Jerry Stamatov & Ivan Nanev 410.1.

Open MP pairs silver: 1. Mukund Jagannathan & Gautam Biswas 366.8; 2. RG Bhiwandkar & Subhash Dhakras 345.3; 3. Priya Sinha & Koushik Mukherjee 332.5.

IMP pairs: 1. Binod Kumar Shaw & Sanjit Dey; 2. Mithun Mukherjee & Soumya Das; 3. Rashebul Hassan & Md. Amirul Islam.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ARCHERY

Indian women’s team ranked fifth in the Asian Archery Championships

Ankita Bhakat tallied 656 points to place 12th in recurve women’s individual rankings at the Asian Archery Championships, an Olympic qualifying event, in Bangkok on Monday.

In the women’s qualification round, Bhajan Kaur, Tisha Punia and Simranjeet Kaur took 16th, 21st and 28th places respectively. The Indian women’s team was ranked fifth.

In compound, World champion Aditi Swami topped the chart with 710 points. V.Jyothi Surekha (third) and Parneet Kaur (fourth) bagged top-five positions to help the women’s side claim the number one spot (2105).

Priyansh, who scored 710 points, was second in the men’s rankings. World champion Ojas Deotale, fourth among the Indians with 708 points, couldn’t make it to the men’s team event. The Indian men’ team logged its highest score to be second (2127), a point behind Korea.

The results:

Recurve: Individual: Women: Ankita Bhakat (12th, 656), Bhajan Kaur (16th, 649), Tisha Punia (21st, 642), Simranjeet Kaur (28th, 633); Team: India: Women (5th, 1947), Mixed (4th, 1338).

Compound: Individual: Men: Priyansh (2nd, 710), Prathamesh Fuge (3rd, 709), Abhishek Verma (6th, 708), Ojas Deotale (7th, 708); Women: Aditi Swami (1st, 706), V. Jyothi Surekha (3rd, 700), Parneet Kaur (4th, 699), Muskan Kirar (21st, 679); Team: India: Men (2nd, 2127), Women: (1st, 2105), Mixed (1st, 1416).

-Y. B. Sarangi

TENNIS

Jagmeet beats Digvijay in first round of AITA men’s tennis tournament

Third seed Jagmeet Singh fought his way past qualifier Digvijay Singh Mehta 6-3, 6-7(5), 7-6(1) in the first round of the Rs.2,50,000 AITA men’s tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex on Monday.

The results (first round):

Neeraj Yashpaul bt Manjot Singh Ahuja 6-1, 6-2; Tarik Gupta bt Rohan Mittal 6-7(6), 6-3, 6-4; Tushar Mittal bt Ricky Chaudhary 7-6(3), 6-4; Rhythm Malhotra bt Yashwardhan Singh 6-2, 1-6, 6-3; Parth Aggarwal bt Arjun Rathi 6-4, 6-3; Shanker Heisnam bt Yash Baghel 6-4, 6-2; Dhananjay Singh bt Deep Munim 6-1, 1-6, 6-4; Sarthak Suden bt Sarthak Gulati 6-3, 6-3; Ajay Kundu bt Kartik Saxena 6-4, 6-2; Vlasier khate bt Amandeep Singh Baha 7-5, 6-3; Rahul Yadav bt Hemant Kumar 7-6(5), 5-7, 7-6(5); Jagmeet Singh bt Digvijay Singh Mehta 6-3, 6-7(5), 7-6(1); Rakshit Dhankar bt KS Arya 6-2, 6-2; Shubh Negi bt Eklavya Ssingh 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(4); Siddharth Basatti bt Parmeet Ssingh Deol 6-3, 6-2; Udit Kamboj bt Lokesh Pun 6-4, 6-2.

-Kamesh Srinivasan